International Political Economy

The Department of Political Science and International Studies hosts a large and vibrant International Political Economy research community.

Launched in 2002, the International Political Economy Research Group holds a series of regular events each term, including: guest seminars by leading scholars in the field; roundtable discussions on contemporary developments in the world economy; research workshops and policy engagement forums; as well as major conferences. In addition to academic staff, our large community of doctoral researchers and graduate students play a major role in International Political Economy Research Group events.

Members have successfully built a high profile for the Department in International Political Economy (IPE) within the wider profession. In addition to presenting guest seminars and engagement with broader IPE research networks, members have given recent conference papers to, amongst others:

International Political Economy (IPE) Research Group members have published articles in leading journals in the field of International Relations / IPE, including:

  • European Journal of Political Research
  • European Journal of International Relations
  • Global Governance
  • International Studies Quarterly
  • International Organisation
  • Journal of European Public Policy
  • Journal of Common Market Studies
  • Millennium
  • New Political Economy
  • Review of International Political Economy
  • Review of International Studies

Members 

David Bailey
The state and capital, centre-left parties, and European integration

Stephen Bates
Political analysis and the philosophy of the social sciences

André Broome
Economic constructivism, international organizations, taxation and monetary reform

Professor Peter Burnham
British politics, radical IPE, state theory

Luis Cabrera
Development aid, immigration, and global economic and political integration

Donna Lee
African economic diplomacy, WTO trade negotiations, small states in the IPE, Economic and commercial diplomacy, diplomatic theory and practice

Ronen Palan
State theory, changing nature of the state, modes of governance in the contemporary globalised economy

Nicki Smith
Small states, economic globalisation and economic performance, and the political economy of sex

Jill Steans
International relation theory, gender in International Relations / International Political Economy

Colin Thain
Politics of economic policymaking, budgetary politics, central banking

Sevasti-Eleni Vezirgiannidou
International environmental politics, environment and trade negotiations, environmental regimes

PhD research students

Barbara Beinstein
Institutional theory, politics of distribution

Liam Clegg
The Politics of Accountability at the World Bank and IMF: Reforming engagements in low-income countries

Edward Chan
Integration theory, political economy of China and Taiwan

Idorenyin Etokakpan
Commercial diplomacy, United Kingdom, Canada

Jiesheng Li
Trying to get their way in development: Countries as World Bank shareholders and bilateral aid donors

Hung Pham
Developmental state theories, economic policy reform, political economy of Vietnam

Zoë Pflager
Development strategies, international organizations, global coffee industry, Keynya

Pana Stitsart
Political economy of sovereign wealth funds the case of China and Singapore

Amin Samman
(Re-) imagining the crises of global capital

Antoinette Valsamakis
The role of South African business in South Africa’s post-apartheid economic diplomacy

Collin Zhuawu
Engaging Africa in the changing IPE: Mauritius activism and Cooperation in the WTO

Shaf Zafeer
Internal conflict and political economy, foreign direct investment, economic growth 

For further information about the research group contact:
 Andre Broome: Tel: +44 (0)121 415 8634 Email: a.j.broome@bham.ac.uk